Example sentences of "[subord] it [was/were] [num] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the standard of management has been variable , it is much better than it was 10 or 15 years ago as a result of fiercer competition and a great deal of fall-out . |
| 2 | This general theme is perhaps even more relevant now to the field of special educational needs than it was two or three years ago when the initial decision about the conference topic was made . |
| 3 | Coun Ken Walker ( Lib Dem ) said : ‘ The state of the river is better than it was two or three years ago but I would like to see more resources spent on the worst sections ; in the town centre . |
| 4 | Medved is guilty of some distinctly muddled thinking on pop , which is less political than it was 20 or 30 years ago when Alice Cooper sang about school being blown to pieces . |
| 5 | All the while long lines of lorries trundled along the streets as if it was 1945 and the retreating Wehrmacht only a couple of miles away . |
| 6 | I find it extra-ordinary that the police could not get access to these files simply because it was 5.30 and the office was shut . |
| 7 | Fears were also expressed by some passengers that the tunnel might collapse while they were travelling through it or that they might suffocate from the lack of air because it was one and three quarter miles long ! |
| 8 | They walked on , thinking of This and That , and by-and-by they came to an enchanted place on the very top of the Forest called Galleons Lap , which is sixty-something trees in a circle ; and Christopher Robin knew that it was enchanted because nobody had ever been able to count whether it was sixty-three or sixty-four , not even when he tied a piece of string round each tree after he had counted it . |
| 9 | I would sink down into a velvet void so entire and impenetrable that whether it was I or I was it , became moot . |
| 10 | And the horse it came up with this long wooden handle , I do n't know whether it was three or four , I ca n't remember , but that was for some couchgrass . |
| 11 | I do n't know whether it was 1915 or 1916 . |
| 12 | but I , I disagree with them lending money to the extent , the old way was better when it was two and a half times the salary , your salary |
| 13 | Which is not as nasty as it was ten or fifteen years ago , but it 's still a lot of money if you come into this bracket . |